Minireview Maize DNA-sequencing strategies and genome organization Ron J Okagaki and Ronald L

Minireview Maize DNA-sequencing strategies and genome organization Ron J Okagaki and Ronald L Phillips Address: Department of Agronomy and Plant Genetics, and Center for Plant and Microbial Genomics, The University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN 55108, USA. Correspondence: Ron J Okagaki. E-mail: okaga002@tc.umn.edu comment reviews Published: 16 April 2004 Genome Biology 2004, 5:223 The electronic version of this article is the complete one and can be found online at http://genomebiology.com/2004/5/5/223 © 2004 BioMed Central Ltd reports Abstract A large amount of repetitive DNA complicates the assembly of the maize genome sequence. Genome-filtration techniques, such as methylation-filtration and high-CoT separation, enrich gene sequences in genomic libraries. These methods may...